“Another day, another battery deal. Street Talk can reveal Amp Energy, a Canadian renewable energy infrastructure player backed by global investment firm The Carlyle Group, is in the market searching for a buyer for its portfolio of local renewable generation and storage assets. A sale flyer, distributed by the sell-side adviser Bank of America … [Read more…]
“It’s a challenge well understood by Amp Energy. Founded as a solar developer in Toronto, Canada, in 2009, the company developed and built over 2.5 gigawatts (GW) of wind, solar and battery storage assets across the UK, US, Japan, India and Australia. In late 2020 the company secured $374 million in investment from the … [Read more…]
“Amp’s Founder and CEO has plans not just to become one of the world’s largest renewable energy developers, but to redefine the meaning of a supermajor in the race to decarbonize our world. Over the last ten years, we’ve witnessed the beginnings of the largest and most ambitious energy transition in history. The fossil … [Read more…]
“Carlyle Group (NASDAQ:CG) plans to form a new open-ended fund to pursue long-term infrastructure bets, people familiar with the matter told Bloomberg. Meanwhile, shares of CG slide 2% intra-day. The asset manager has started talking about the Carlyle Diversified Infrastructure Fund with potential investors, the people told Bloomberg. The fund would have targeted returns … [Read more…]
“Carlyle Group Inc. is planning to raise a new fund dedicated to long-term infrastructure bets, according to people with knowledge of the matter.” read the entire article Bloomberg, 14 January 2022.
“[K]KR plans to partner with the renewable energy consulting firm Crossover Energy Partners to develop solar and wind power projects. However, it also partners with the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company to produce and distribute petroleum products, and is expanding natural-gas fracking projects in Wyoming. Overall, KKR invests in 28 fossil-fuel companies. The Carlyle … [Read more…]
“Private-equity giant Carlyle Group Inc. is launching a company to develop renewable-power-generation and storage projects in a push to reorient its energy business toward sustainable investments. Funds Carlyle operates will inject as much as $700 million in the new venture, Copia Power, enabling it to arrange projects worth over $6 billion, according to Pooja … [Read more…]
“The Carlyle Group (NASDAQ: CG) has made s strategic growth investment through a $374 million commitment to Amp Solar Group, Inc. (Amp Energy) Equity capital for the transaction has been committed from Carlyle’s Global Infrastructure Opportunity Fund and Carlyle’s Renewable & Sustainable Energy Fund. Founded by Dave Rogers and Paul Ezekiel, Port Credit, Ontario … [Read more…]
” Global investment firm The Carlyle Group (NASDAQ: CG) today announced a strategic growth investment through a $374 million commitment to Amp Solar Group, Inc. (“Amp Energy” or the “Company”), a Canadian-based global energy transition platform. Amp Energy is a global renewable energy infrastructure manager, developer and owner. Since 2009, the Company has successfully … [Read more…]